Morphemes, free and bound forms

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………..3

CHAPTER I LEXICOLOGY AS THE STUDY OF LEXICON AND MORPHEMES, FREE AND BOUND FORMS…………………………….4

1.1 Lexicology as the study of lexicon and Morphemes, free and bound forms………………………………………………………………5

1.2 Historical development of lexicology, Aims and principles of morphemic and word-formation analysis…………………………………11

CHAPTER II WORD AND VOCABULARY, DERIVATION AND FUNCTIONAL AFFIXES……………………………………………………..19

2.1 Word and vocabulary, Derivation and functional affixes………20

2.2 Main ways of English vocabulary, Semi-Affixes and Boundary cases between derivation and inflection…………………………………..22

2.4 Word Formation, Suffixation, Allomorphs and Slang, Jargon..25

2.4.1 Neologisms, Classification of suffixes……………………….26

2.4.2 Borrowed Words, Suffixes and endings……………………..31

2.4.3 The origin of suffixes………………………………………...34

2.4.4 Nominal and verbal suffixes…………………………………37